What is happening with this...does anyone know what is happening currently with the "investigation?" It's an outrage! How are they getting away with this? It prompted a "scolding?" WTF?!
Education Dept. paid commentator to promote law
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.
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Williams' contract was part of a $1 million deal with Ketchum that produced "video news releases" designed to look like news reports. The Bush administration used similar releases last year to promote its Medicare prescription drug plan, prompting a scolding from the Government Accountability Office, which called them an illegal use of TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htmOn another note (but somewhat related), please sign Wes Clark's petition to stop the radical right's takeover of of the FCC and your television.
http://ga4.org/campaign/fcc?source=home_fcc